personality psychology

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personality
noun
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/ˌpɜː.sənˈæl.ə.ti/us
/ˌpɝː.sənˈæl.ə.t̬i/
the type of person you are, shown by the way you behave, feel, ...
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psychology
noun[U]
uk
/saɪˈkɒl.ə.dʒi/us
/saɪˈkɑː.lə.dʒi/
the scientific study of the way the human mind works and how it influences behaviour, or the influence of a particular person's character on their ...
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(Definition ofpersonalityandpsychologyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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These five factors provide a rich conceptual framework for integrating all the research findings and theory inpersonalitypsychology.
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The dominant view in the field ofpersonalitypsychologytoday holds that personality emerges early and continues to change in meaningful ways throughout the lifespan.
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It was established in 2009 and covers research inpersonalitypsychology.
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The study of the biological level inpersonalitypsychologyfocuses primarily on identifying the role of genetic determinants and how they mold individual personalities.
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One of the major tenets of this concentration ofpersonalitypsychologyis a strong emphasis on scientific thinking and experimentation.
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He has written over 70 publications in social/personalitypsychology.
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Next, knowledge from the basic sciences relevant to hostile attributional bias and aggressive behavior will be synthesized, including knowledge from ethology, neuroscience, social psychology,personalitypsychology, and developmental psychology.
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Our effort to capitalize on the most recent advances inpersonalitypsychologydemonstrates this challenge, but also reveals the promise that such interdisciplinary research may hold.
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Structures and processes inpersonalitypsychology.
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Inpersonalitypsychology, people reliably differ from each other depending on four key aspects: beliefs in luck, rejection of luck, being lucky, and being unlucky.
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In contemporarypersonalitypsychology, agreeableness is one of the five major dimensions of personality structure, reflecting individual differences in cooperation and social harmony.
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Need is particularly important to the area ofpersonalitypsychology.
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The evolutionary approach topersonalitypsychologyis based on this theory.
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Meanwhile, a more generalpersonalitypsychologyhad been developing in academia and to some extent clinically.
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His main research interests are environmental psychology, social psychology, andpersonalitypsychology.
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It covers the fields of social andpersonalitypsychology.
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Rotters (1954) locus of control theory inpersonalitypsychologyhas also been used to determine individual differences in reaction to situations of conflict.
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Many researchers ofpersonalitypsychologyargue that specific traits have been proposed and studied without considering that these traits have a broad, common core.
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The zeitgeist was changing during this time, people wanted to show more interest in humans, and more people were becoming interested inpersonalitypsychology.
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However, it owes particularly large debt topersonalitypsychologyand social psychology.
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